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Date: | Sunday 9 March 1941 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bristol Blenheim Mk IF |
Owner/operator: | 54 OTU RAF |
Registration: | K7114 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near RAF Church Fenton, North Yorkshire, England. -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | RAF Church Fenton, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | RAF Church Fenton |
Narrative:Blenheim K7114: Took off for Training flight. 09/03/1941
The pilot of this aircraft had been given forty five minutes instructional flying in a dual controlled Blenheim. Twenty five minutes later he was instructed to undertake his first solo in Blenheim K7114 and was to carry out a basic training flight of a series of local circuits and landings. He had completed the first of these landings and left to circle to do a second but it was while he was making a wide circuit of the airfield and flying at around 600 feet the port wing dropped and the aircraft side-slipped into the ground. The port engine was found to have been excessively oily and this may have caused the engine to cut out.
Crew:
S/Ldr (33093) Charles Richard John PINK (pilot) RAF - killed
Sources:
1.http://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/yorkshire/york41/l6731.html
2.1.Air Britain RAF Aircraft L1000 - N9999
3.Blenheim production list
4.AIR81/5421
5.CWGC
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